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· 10/9/1973

Balsley v. United States

Citations

  • 414 U.S. 841
  • 94 S. Ct. 97

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  • “To assume ... that the mere passage of a specific statute covering an area of conduct also regulated by a more general statute limits enforcement of the general statute ... is, in effect, to accomplish a partial repeal of the general statute.”

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